Tricky Trivia – Platypus

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Michelle Nguyen, Reporter

Questions:

  1.  Which mammalian trait does the platypus lack?

 

  1.  What unusual defense does a male platypus have?

 

  1. What does the name platypus mean? 

 

  1.  True or False: A platypus’ beak is hard, like a duck’s beak. 

 

  1. Do platypus have teeth?

 

Answers:

  1. It doesn’t bear live young.

 

  1. It has poison spurs on its hind feet.

 

  1. Broad foot.

 

  1. False.

 

  1. Only babies do.

 

Works Cited

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/platypus.html

https://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Animals/The-Mysterious-Platypus-215317.html